Social Medicine, Social Health
By Jeffry Fawcett, January 29, 2007 in the Editorials blog
Disease prevention has fallen on hard times. This according to a New York Times article last week titled “What’s a Pound of Prevention Really Worth?”
The article opens with a description of Dr. Arthur Agatston’s practice. Although he is most famous as a diet doctor for writing “The South Beach Diet”, he’s a cardiologist—like Robert Atkins, whose diet also originated with the same concern for preventing heart attacks. [Read more…]